136 GRIEVANCES OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
Under all the circumstances, we can excuse Mr. Kent for being 
not a little angry ; but he has gone too far; and we shall be much 
deceived and disappointed if he does not, ere long, feel and ac¬ 
knowledge it. This is not a time to quarrel with and malign 
each other. In the pursuit of the common cause in which every 
veterinary practitioner now feels a deep and all-absorbing in¬ 
terest, every minor contention should be forgotten. —Ed. 
ON THE GRIEVANCES OF THE VETERINARY 
PROFESSION. 
By Mr. Langworthy. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Constans et lenis, ut res expostulet, esto. 
Sir, 
ON reading the letter in your last number signed “ A Farrier ,” 
I at first intended to take no notice of it; but I was fearful, had 
I been silent, your correspondent would have considered it arose 
from inability to answer his “ hasty thoughts;” and that he would 
not have attributed it to the right cause. 
Gratitude first bids me to thank him for his “ only motive ,” 
and for the anxiety he manifests lest 1 should be “ led away by 
an ignis fatuus.” He appears to me to be afraid, in this instance, 
that the shadow may become a substance. 
I do also express my sorrow, that any step I have taken should 
have produced symptoms of a “ dangerous malady,” in any per¬ 
son, especially in one who feels an interest for my welfare ; yet 
I cannot help saying, if my anonymous friend had understood 
what he read, I think he would not have suffered from “ cacoethes 
scribendi.” Query: Was it not cacoethes carpendi? He talks of 
“ nobility and wealth ” Did I either directly or indirectly speak 
of such acquirements ? Does he, or could he, imagine that I 
wanted or expected veterinary surgeons to be created peers of the 
realm ? 
He says Parliament has “ more serious concerns at this moment 
to occupy its attention.” Does he mean to assert that the question 
now in agitation will always be a barrier to every other considera¬ 
tion ? or did he suppose I intended an application to be made to 
